Each year, I pull myself from deep hibernation like a demented groundhog to see how long his own shadow (the 5 O’clock kind…) has grown and pledge another year to Inktober, a challenge I’ve never actually finished. This year, I’m going to try something different and not use any Inktober prompts and instead try to illustrate a small comic, with each page (or more likely, panel) being its own prompt. That comic is based on my character “Bikura” inspired by the music of an old friend and the comic “Spacegirl” by Travis Charest. Spacegirl is a comic where each panel is a page, allowing the story to shift around outside of a standard “stream of time” format of normal comics. For me, this allows for each page to be radically different to the page before, both in style, pacing and plot - awesome for a disconnected illustrator/writer like me. So, each day I’m going to try and tackle one part of the story, armed only with a vague idea of the story imagined in the script, of which I have 10